Welcome to the all new weekly video series focusing on how to stay motivated about your money.

Dealing with your business and personal finances every month can be overwhelming, but there is hope! Check out the strategies, tactics, tools, tips, and tricks in this video series to get the support you need to stay motivated about your money.

I will talk more about this in the video segments, but this is THE book that has had the most impact on how I relate to my money. It was “Your Money or Your Life” that finally kickstarted me in working with Ashlea to turn our money-life in a new direction and get us where we are today. Many of the lessons I learned in “Your Money or Your Life” have also had an effect on how I have built and run my business.

Of course I haven’t read “Your Money or Your Life” in 10 years, so maybe my feelings about it have changed. I am not sure, so I am re-reading the book now, and shooting videos of my biggest take-aways from each chapter. All of those take-away videos can be found in this blog post, so make sure to come back and watch the newest videos as I post them. I will post each updated chapter review with the date the videos were added so you can easily use the table of contents to jump to the videos you haven’t watched yet.

This is a new experiment in my business, so if you find this content valuable let me know by leaving a comment on this post, or by emailing me at jeremie@jeremiemiller.com.

People are often shocked when I tell them that my family saves $3372 per year for Christmas:

“That is a pretty extravagant Christmas”
“We don’t spend nearly that much, wow, that is a lot of money”

This is true, $3372 is a whole bunch of money, but in reality, it is not as shocking an amount of money to save for Christmas as you think, once you understand WHAT is included in that total.

The REAL Cost of Christmas

When I talk with people about saving for Christmas, and Christmas spending, what I have found is that people are only thinking about the cost of the presents they will be purchasing for Christmas.

“Last year we spent $600 on presents, so we are saving money for that this year”

Then, after Christmas and New Years are over, these same people are confused and upset when they have far less money in their accounts than they expected.

“But, we only spent $600 on presents”

The problem is, Christmas spending includes so many things beyond the presents you buy for people, and it is all of these other costs that quickly add up and drain your bank accounts, and increase your credit card bills, far quicker than you imagined.

My family’s Christmas savings are $3372 because we include the true total cost of Christmas in our spending plan. We include:[Read more…]